A report on Ganges
![Preparations for cremations on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi], 1903. The dead are being bathed, wrapped in cloth, and covered with wood. The photograph has a caption, "Who dies in the waters of the Ganges obtains heaven."]](https://hyperleap.com/images/e413c12025caf91106161528861073e9/200-9779a24bfa203e21e6a24db935adfd4d.jpg)
Trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh.
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Ganges Basin
1 linksThe Ganges Basin is a part of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin draining 1,086,000 square kilometres in Tibet, Nepal, India and Bangladesh.
Farakka Barrage
3 linksBarrage across the Ganga river located in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal, roughly 18 km from the border with Bangladesh near Shibganj.
Barrage across the Ganga river located in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal, roughly 18 km from the border with Bangladesh near Shibganj.
The Ganges is one of the major rivers of the world.
Howrah
2 linksSecond-largest city after Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Second-largest city after Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Howrah and Kolkata are separated by the Hooghly River/Ganges and connected by four bridges across the river.
Rajasthan
3 linksState in northern India.
State in northern India.
Eastern and southeastern Rajasthan is drained by the Banas and Chambal rivers, tributaries of the Ganges.
Vamana
0 linksBrahmin avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu.
Brahmin avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu.
The tip of one of Vishnu's toes, while He took the three steps to reclaim the three worlds from Bali, created the Ganges river (37.4-5)
Pilgrimage
4 linksJourney, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good, through the experience.
Journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good, through the experience.
Kanwar Pilgrimage: The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. As part of this phenomenon, millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga (usually in Haridwar, Gangotri, Gaumukh, or Sultanganj) and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines.
Indica (Megasthenes)
1 linksAccount of Mauryan India by the Greek writer Megasthenes.
Account of Mauryan India by the Greek writer Megasthenes.
Many of these rivers merge into the Ganges, which is 30 stadia wide at its source, and runs from north to south.
Proby Cautley
1 linksBest known for conceiving and supervising the construction of the Ganges canal during East India Company rule in India.
Best known for conceiving and supervising the construction of the Ganges canal during East India Company rule in India.
The canal stretches some 350 miles between its headworks at Haridwar and, after bifurcation near Aligarh, its confluences with the Ganges river mainstem in Kanpur and the Yamuna river in Etawah.
Aravalli Range
3 linksMountain range in Northern-Western India, running approximately 670 km (430 mi) in a south-west direction, starting near Delhi, passing through southern Haryana, Rajasthan, and ending in Ahmedabad Gujarat.
Mountain range in Northern-Western India, running approximately 670 km (430 mi) in a south-west direction, starting near Delhi, passing through southern Haryana, Rajasthan, and ending in Ahmedabad Gujarat.
Eastern and southeastern Rajasthan is drained by the Banas and Chambal rivers, tributaries of the Ganges.
Distributary
2 linksStream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel.
Stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel.
Hoogli River is a Ganges distributary that flows through India, whereas most of the Ganges-Brahmaputra complex enters the sea through Bangladesh.